Improvement in processes for manufacturing paper tubing



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

HENRY M. BOIES, OF SORANTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PROCESSES FOR MANUFACTURING PAPER TUBING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168.365, dated October 5, 1875; application filed July 10, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, HENRY M. Bones, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, have invented an [Inproved Process of Manufacturing Paper into Endless Water-Proof Tubing, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to a process of manufacturing paper into water-proof endless tubing, for use as cartridge'tubing; and it consists in cutting a web of paper in the roll into strips of the required width, and in pasting one edge of the strip; then folding it longitudinally over a suitable tongue or former, so as to lap the edges one upon theother, and in then pressing the lapped edges together and drying the paste; and, finally, in conducting the tube thus formed through a vat containing a bath of water-proofing material, which dries on exposure to the air, or by the appli- H. M. BOIES.

Witnesses:

' JOHN D. SHERER,

L. M. HORTON. 

